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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Life of Crime - Episode 316 - The Knitmore Girls Podcast

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While winter brings feeling of nesting or hunkering down, it also means a picking up a piece or two of handcrafts. The oven works overtime for those holiday family favorites, quilters stitch just a tad faster to complete works of art before gift giving officially opens, and knitters dash to their local yarn store to squeeze in one more scarf or pair of socks for that last minute gift. As you are crafting wonders, Bar-Maids continues to handcraft yummy goodness for your skin ... all to to help you....even if you continue to create into the wee morning hours. Bar-Maids handcrafts their products with natural skin loving oils and butters; everything your skin needs to keep it soft and moisturized and nothing it doesn't. Since you use our hands a tad more in this season, let Lo-Lo help keep them moisturized. It's simple! Get your hands wet, shake the water off and get your Lo-Lo on before you pick-up needle, cookie cutter, or drop spindle.

Erin.Lane's 2015 bag club is accepting sign-ups. This year's club is designed with the crafter and her budget in mind. The Under $100 bag club has four options for you to choose from. Get your geek on, show your love for your feline friends, surround yourself with bags with yarn in AND on them, or strut your stuff carrying a Dr. Who bag. Each themed option includes 4 bags sent over the first 3 quarters of 2015. Sign ups close on January 15th.

Infinite Twist produces unique and luxurious hand-spun yarns that are
crafted in a socially responsible way. Spun from hand-painted roving and
hand-blended batts, our hand-spun yarns are a tactile delight for
knitters. We also offer project kits that take the guess-work out of
yarn and color selection, and hand-dyed mill-spun yarns in striking
semi-solid colors. Find out more by visiting infinitetwist.com, or find
us on Ravelry and Instagram as infinitetwist. Sign up for our
newsletter for a free knitting pattern every month, and don’t forget to
use offer code “knitmore”!

Purlescence Yarns is the Bay Area's destination yarn shop. From the best
in spinning and weaving equipment to luxurious yarns and fibers, we
have what you need to make your fibery dreams a reality. We're always
happy to provide mail order service for Knitmore Girls listeners. Call
us today, it'll be on its way!

2/19-2/22/2015: Stitches West!
- Meet and Greet from 11:30-1pm in the Purlescence Yarns booth. We will be collecting preemie hats. Contest:(24:06)

Parameters for participating in the #operationsockdrawer contest:

Participants: post a picture to the ravelry forum, or to instagram with the #operationsockdrawer,
have your ravelry name on your instagram profile. Feel free to double
dip your projects.

Projects will be judged on originality and general delightfulness.

Next week's prize is a skein of Lollipop Yarns in the colorway: Breakers
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We are co-hosting the Countdown to Outlander Knitalong on instagram,
#countdowntooutlander, #kiltmenowKAL. This has to be creatively related
to the Outlander series. Getting help from pocket Jamie is encouraged.

This is an instagram contest, so please make sure to use the appropriate hashtags.

Prizes for this contest are two braids of fiber and two skeins of yarn from Gourmet Stash in the colorways "Time Traveler" and "Waterweed".

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Our annual Do Some Good contest
has begun! Do some good on a local, national or global level, post it to the thread, maybe you'll win a
prize! But you'll definitely do some good, and that's awesome. The
contest will close1/21/2015.Winners will be chosen on the basis
of originality and delightfulness. Also, your charity needs to benefit
others than your immediate friends and family. For the first hundred entries, the prizes are:-The Dishcloth Diva package: -Prize includes: Big Fat Soap (by the Bar Maids), a copy of Dishcloth Diva and Dishcloth Diva Knits On!and dishcloths knit by Deb Buckingham herself.
- An Erin Lane Bag
- And something else, pending Jasmin going out to the arctic garage

For each additional 50 entries, we will add another prize.
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We think if you liked the vintage fashions by Gretchen Hirsch this book is a phenomenal tool for adapting your knits.

Also, this would be a great resource for the Fit, Flatter, Feel Wonderful KAL (#FFFWKAL).
The author mentions pattern paper, and Gigi says that Swedish TracingPaper is quite similar.

Straw Into Gold:(55:29)

Gigi is planning to do #15in2015, spinning at least 15 minutes every night. She is enjoying spinning on her Jenkins Turkish Delight. She spun a bit on her Bosworth Spindle and found it challenging. She is also trying to spin on her Jenkins Lark Turkish spindle, but is being challenged by the fiber.

3 comments:

Gigi, I too learned the double sewn gathering method. I gave up on this with all of the poly thread that is out there now. My current method for gathering is to zigzag over crochet cotton, I much prefer this as I never break a thread.

I think you have the wrong link for the Leslie Wind shawl latch. I believe the correct link is https://www.etsy.com/listing/187165823/polished-sterling-disc-latch-for?ref=shop_home_active_1&ga_search_query=latch

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